President Donald Trump has trash-talked a Virginia restaurant that asked his press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, to leave because she worked for his administration.

In a tweet posted this morning, Mr Trump said that The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia "should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders".

"I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside!" added Mr Trump, an admitted germophobe, who has said he prefers eating at fast food chains rather than independent eateries because he trusts them more.

President Donald Trump has slammed the 'dirty, filthy' restaurant for kicking out his press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Picture: AAP (AAP)Images of the restaurant, a three-hour-drive from Washington, online appear to show no evidence of serious disrepair, with clean-looking green awnings and white paint on the doors and trim. Picture: AP (AP)

Images of the restaurant, a three-hour-drive from Washington, online appear to show no evidence of serious disrepair, with clean-looking green awnings and white paint on the doors and trim.

Sanders tweeted over the weekend that she was asked to leave the restaurant by its owner Friday evening because she worked for Mr Trump.

President Donald Trump has trash-talked a Virginia restaurant that asked his press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, to leave because she worked for his administration. Picture: AP (AP)The restaurant's co-owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, told The Washington Post that her reasons for booting Ms Sanders included the concerns of employees who were gay. Picture: AP (AP)

Ms Sanders said she "politely left" and that the owner's "actions say far more about her than about me".

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The restaurant's co-owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday, but she told The Washington Post that her reasons for booting Ms Sanders included the concerns of employees who were gay and knew Ms Sanders had defended Mr Trump's desire to bar transgender people from serving in the military.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claims she was booted from a Virginia restaurant because she works for President Donald Trump. Picture: AP (AP)

Several other Trump administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, have been confronted in public in recent days amid intense fury over an administration policy that led to a spike in the number of migrant children being separated from their parents after crossing the border illegally.

Ms Nielsen cut short a working dinner at a Mexican restaurant last week after protesters shouted, "Shame!" until she left.

Trump policy adviser Stephen Miller was accosted by someone at a different Mexican restaurant, who called him "a fascist", according to the New York Post.

The displays of hostility have set off a fierce debate about whether politics should play a role in how administration officials are treated in public, with Ms Sanders's father, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee denouncing his daughter's treatment as "bigotry".